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After his election as candidate for chancellor, the doubts about Armin Laschet are apparently great: A survey by the opinion research institute Insa on behalf of the "NZZ" showed that a relative majority of 31 percent of those surveyed assume that the CDU chairman will be joint before the federal election Chancellor candidate of the Union is exchanged.

34 percent are undecided, 7 percent do not want to give any information, and only 29 percent see Laschet firmly in the saddle as a candidate.

A total of 2075 people of age from Germany were interviewed for the survey between April 30 and May 3.

The older the respondents are, the more skeptical Laschet is.

It rises continuously from 21 percent for 18 to 29 year olds to 36 percent for people aged at least 60 years.

The Union's voters are also divided.

Among them, a total of 36 percent expect a change in the candidate for chancellor, 34 percent do not.

Of the AfD voters, 45 percent expect Laschet to withdraw.

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CDU boss Laschet has not had an easy position since his freestyle as Union Chancellor candidate. In switching with the state associations of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse and Schleswig-Holstein, he recently tried, it is said, to pull the district chairmen on his line - who wanted to vote in part with CSU boss Markus Söder.

Bad polls for the Union

At the weekend, Söder distanced himself from the Union chancellor candidate in another interview.

There were also other bad polls for the Union.

If the general election were on Sunday, the CDU / CSU would have 24 percent.

The reported "image" citing a representative survey by the Insa Institute.

That is at least one point more than the previous week.

But the Greens also gained one point to 24 percent.

The SPD (15 percent) and the Left (seven percent) each lose one point.

AfD and FDP hold their values ​​from the previous week with twelve percent each.

After all, Insa boss Hermann Binkert sees the downward trend in the Union stopped.

The head-to-head race between the two strongest parties - the CDU and the Greens - remains.